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It seems rather simplistic at first, the idea of floating your troubles away. The concept of floating was really the brainchild of John Lily.

After many experiments and alternative ways of floating the Sensory Deprivation Tank was born. This tank offers an environment of peaceful relaxation. A completely enclosed box with 10" of 95.3 degree water with 700 pounds of epsom salts is the space you occupy during an hour float session. The warmth of the water and the buoyancy of the salt combined with the darkness and peace with no outside sensory influence, allows the floater to be completely emmersed in their own world. Think of it as a break from the outside world, like a short vacation.

As the body begins to relax and float in the buoyancy of the warm salt water, the mind gets overactive. Or possibly the mind just seems that way because it is so quiet.

ATLANTA -- Americans participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) second National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day event last weekend turned in more than 376,593 pounds of unwanted or expired medications.

This is 55 percent more than the 242,000 pounds the public brought in during last September's event.

The medications were taken to 5,361 take-back sites in all 50 states.

"The amount of prescription drugs turned in by the American public during the first two take-back events is simply staggering -- 309 tons -- and represents a clear need for a convenient way to rid homes of unwanted or expired prescription drugs," said DEA administrator Michele M. Leonhart.

"While this is a non-human case, we recognize that the mosquito and tick season is starting earlier than in previous years," said Dr. Anil T. Mangla, program director of infectious disease & immunization and acting state epidemiologist for the DCH.